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Super Smash Band: Rivals

by Do a Barrel Roll!

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    includes a 16-page booklet with beautiful full-color artwork by Randall Drew featuring images of each character, as well as thoughtful text written by the band. Disc and booklet are contained inside a full-size crystal jewel case, professionally shrink-wrapped. Shipped via media mail from the US.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Super Smash Band: Rivals via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Includes a full-color, high-resolution PDF download of the booklet.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 5 Do a Barrel Roll! releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Super Smash Band: Rivals, Super Smash Band: Heroes, DABR! Plays!, Acoustic Videosongs, and Boss Rush. , and , .

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about

"Super Smash Band is a love letter to the Super Smash Bros. series of videogames by Nintendo. In these games, characters from all different types of franchises and genres that would never otherwise cross paths come together in the spirit of friendly competition.

I have been scheming about doing mash-ups with videogame themes and music from famous records for a long time. There were signs of this in older DABR! recordings, even. Something in my brain causes me to highlight similarities and overlaps between things--especially in music--so I wanted to create an album that would allow me to put to tape my line of thought, as it were.

Super Smash Bros. has been an influence on the band since the very beginning, so it was only natural that I thought of it as a correlation with this project early on. Soon I had created a list of characters from the Smash games and had the idea to do a song that represents each character. Being that there are almost 100 characters now, I had to be a bit more selective and decided to split the project into two albums--one to represent the original 12 characters from the very first Super Smash Bros. game on the Nintendo 64, and a second album to cover a mix of newer characters as well as honorable-mention, fan-favorite characters that players are constantly clamoring for the addition of.

I presented the project idea to my bandmates, and we started selecting songs immediately from a larger pool that I had put together. A few of the mash-up ideas were thought of before we ever started playing, but most of them were realized in the rehearsal space, and some were even refined during the recording phase. We are so immensely proud of this project and the excitement we can bring to audiences with this music. I really hope you enjoyed Heroes, and that you enjoy this long-awaited follow-up Rivals!”

-Austin Colden

credits

released April 30, 2024

Daniel Brakke - bass guitar
Tom Brooks - guitar
Austin Colden - keyboards, guitar (tracks 3, 7, 8, 9)
Andrew Goulson - drums
Cierra Hill - violin

Engineered by Brian Lenz and Wesley Berger at Citrine Recording House
Mixed & Mastered by Wesley Berger
Produced by Do a Barrel Roll!
Artwork by Randall Drew

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The Super Smash Band! A groove-based VGM band covering deep cuts and mashing them up with popular songs from outside the VGM world.

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